<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 1:49 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-m_2621125038229786478gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:14pt">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span> </span></span>Authority is intentionally limited in the US. </blockquote></blockquote></span></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote></span></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr"><span class="gmail-im" style=""><blockquote style="color:rgb(80,0,80);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:14pt">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…It's very odd, the way you keep repeating that over and over like a mantra it's almost as if you think it's important…</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(80,0,80);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>It is important.  It is why we have never had a dictator.  Can you think of any other explanation?  Do share please.</i></blockquote><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></div><font size="4">And so as the man who jumped from the top fell past the 20th story of the Empire State Building he was heard to say "so far so good".</font><br></span></div><div class="gmail_attr"><span class="gmail-im" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_attr"><span class="gmail-im" style=""><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></span></div></div></div>